Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.

1) For an indulgent Thanksgiving Dinner last night. All the food, the family altogether, fun, fun fun!

2) A successful Moving Sale – we sold all of our stuff, had fun along the way and raised $550+. Yay!

3) Zyrtec. Magic for hayfever.

4) Kissing.

5) The kindness of others.

1) The book “Water for Elephants”. What a perfect book to read to and from work on the train. I get absolutely lost in this book. I am in awe.

2) Homemade “pancit” made by my Grandmother. I had it for lunch. Yum!

3) Random talks with my little sister. I want only the best for her and I’m so proud of her.

4) Cheesy jokes. That make me chuckle.

5) The growth I experience everyday at work.

1) Authors. Books. The pleasure of reading one. One of the greatest comforts in life, I reckon.

2) THANKSGIVING. The excitement of cooking for Thanksgiving. Even more so because I know how much it means to Zach to be able to celebrate American holidays even though he’s so far away from home.

3) Helpful, customer-serviced minded people. We had a lovely girl help us out with buying our Skype phone. She made it a pleasurable experience and she was there to actually help us, not treat her job as just that, a job.

4) Patience. Tolerance.

5) Martha Stewart Living & Weddings magazines. Guilty pleasures.

1) The energy exercising gives me throughout the day.

2) Facebook. And how it has allowed me to get in touch with friends from years ago.

3) Airconditioning. It has been 30C or plus all week. Summer is coming!

4) Compassionate workmates.

1) Receiving a Sympathy Card from co-workers who I haven’t seen for over a year.

2) For the belief.

3) The Cheesecake Shop.

4) Sick leave.

5) The kindness of complete strangers.

1) My Aunt in the Philippines – who is basically doing all the running around for our wedding plans. She’s a treasure.

2) Etsy.com and all the creative artists that live there.

3) My Canon Powershot – and its ability to take movie footage aswell as awesome photos.

4) The Asian Grocer – they stock Filipino junk food! But I refused to succumb to buying Filipino imported ice cream for $13.50!

5) Feeling joy, over the simplest of things.

1) Homemade punch

2) Free tickets to see ASIMO

3) Family gatherings (eg. Halloween)

4) Borders discount coupons

5) Snuggling in bed in wintery weather

1) Giggling workmates after I forwarded them one of those emails that gets forwarded to everyone & their Mom. I love the sound of giggles.

2) Double chocolate muffin.

3) The courage to ask for a pay rise.

4) Reminiscing about my Mom.

5) Fiance who makes me lunch every morning.

1) My memory. I remember my Mummy ALL THE TIME. Most of the time it makes me smile, other times it makes me sad.

2) Peanut M&Ms. So addictive.

3) Excel Spreadsheet. A treasure of a software program.

1) The Time Traveler’s Wife (book)
2) Indulgent Food (ate a heap last night)
3) Sing Star (the hilarity it brings)
4) Summer Wind (the blistery conditions currently experiencing in Australia)
5) Email (allows us to keep in touch often)